Improvement in work-tables



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FANNIE M. B. CLARK, 0F WILMINGTON, VERMONT.

Letters Patent No. 108,449, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPRGVEMENT IN WORK-TABLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the game.

To all persons to whom these presents may 4come Be it known that I, FANNIE M. B. CLARK, of Wilmington, of the county of Windham and State of Vermont, have invented an Improved Work-Table, and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented Vin the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure l is a top view;

Figure 2, a side elevation;

Figure 3, an end elevation; and

Figure 4, a longitudinal section of such table, with the cover of its work and spool-reeeptaoles raised.

In the drawing- A represents the main body or portion of the table, ii'fbeing provided with three legs, a a b a work-receptacle or chamber, e; two drawer-spaces or receptaeles, Z ll, and a serios of spool-cavities, e e, &c., all arranged in manner as represented.

Each of the said spool-receptacles has a hole or aperture, f, leading out of it at its middle, and through the front end of the table,

Each of the spool-cavities' is designed to hold a spool or ball, the thread`from which isto be drawn off through the hole lending out of the cavity.

lhe table-top is divided into two parts, h. i, one of which, i, is hinged to the other, h, and serves as a @over to the reoeptaoles.

The part h is fastened to the body of the table.

Furthermore, there are to the table two leaves, -k l, whieh are hinged together', and one is hinged to the table-top.

Two legs, in m, provided with slides, a u, are also applied together as explained.

hinged to the body'of the table, the same being so that'the legs may be either folded against such body or drawn out underneath the leaf l. y

When the legs m m are to be'drawn out, the slides nun., which slide freely into and out ot' such legs, may be drawn out underneath the leaf k,-, the purpose of the auxiliary legs and their slides` being to support the table-leaves when in horizontal positions.

XVhen the auxiliarylegs are folded back against the table-body, they come underneath the' part of the table-top projecting from the body, the Whole being so as to enable the leaves to be folded together and up to the body or the auxiliary legs; in manner as shown in Figure 5, which is a side view of the table as folded together.

A table so .made is very connvenientas a work-table, as its top lid and leaves, when in horizontal positions, can be usedto great advantage for many purposes..

l. The combination and arrangement -of the two leaves k l, the auxiliary legs m m, and the slides n n with thelnain body or. portion A of the table, all being 2. The said 'body A, as runde with the work and drawer-receptacles o d, the series of spool-cavities e provided with thread-passages f and cover or 'lid i., all arranged asset forth.

FANNIE M. B. CLARK.

Witnesses:

O. E. BUTTERFIELD, C. C. CLARK. 

